Template:Did you know nominations/WYCB
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:38, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
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WYCB
- ... that the 12-year license fight that led to the establishment of Washington, D.C., radio station WYCB also drained its principals' finances? Source (p20), source
- Reviewed: KC Claffy
Created/expanded by Raymie (talk). Self-nominated at 22:11, 5 December 2019 (UTC).
Article and hook all good, but reading the article, it seems like a mere extension to the life of WOOK after the whole priest-lottery-license thing... so my instinct is saying it more fits merged into that article? Kingsif (talk) 01:14, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Kingsif: Sorry for the delay in replying, but I've been meaning to write something like this for a while—it's my user essay on when station articles need separation. License revocation proceedings typically lead to really new stations being formed, and almost always new licenses. User:Raymie/One or Two I hope explains why WYCB and WOOK (AM) shouldn't be in the same article. There wasn't much continuity, either: when the former 1340 left the air, it was as Spanish-language WFAN, so there's no case to be made for continuity from one 1340 station to the next. Raymie (t • c) 01:56, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
@Raymie: Then I will take your expert opinion on this! Great, good to go. Kingsif (talk) 02:00, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Kingsif: Thank you! Broadcasting articles have to be rather precisely named, and it takes a good bit of discipline to figure out when to separate stations that operated on the same frequency in the same place. WYCB isn't WOOK because it made a challenge for WOOK's license and is reckoned by the FCC—and just as crucially, by others—as a separate entity. Raymie (t • c) 02:04, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
